The Rise of Search Internet growth quickly outpaced human indexing efforts, highlighting the need for automated indexing. However, many of the earliest search tools were primitive and did not track any information beyond the website title. This all changed in 1994 when WebCrawler was born. WebCrawler was the first crawler to index entire pages and […]
Introduction The internet is young and search engines even younger. This leaves a period of time in internet history where people did not have access to search engines to conveniently search the web as we do today. Yet people still used the internet, so let us explore how online resources were found before search engines. […]